What type are you? What typeface best matches your character? (video, sound) more inside

The Economy is Sexy They fiddled with themselves while Rome burned? I like to think they weren't ignoring the problem but were turned on by it.

Bodily motions influence memory and emotions. "WHEN talking about our feelings, we often use expressions that link emotions with movements or positions in space... According to a new study published in this month's issue of the journal Cognition, expressions such as these are not merely metaphorical. The research provides evidence of a causal link between motion and emotion, by showing that bodily movements influence the recollection of emotional memories, as well as the speed with which they are recalled."

Blow this up. It's okay, it comes back together after a few seconds. (may require certain browsers; haven't tried it in IE)

The Prophet Mohammed has lots of venerated relics associated with him. Some of them are downright weird. My favorite is his footprints. The claim is that wherever he went, Mohammed's left foot left a semi-permanent impression. Mohammed is Bigfoot? more inside

SDO First Light: NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images.

Unloveable, by Babybird. A nice music video, based on the short story An Occurence at Owl Creek by Ambrose Bierce.

Evidently 3D TV requires many warnings.

xkcd had a cartoon about Tetris recently called "hell". Now someone has made that game a reality in flash. more inside

The correct way to pronounce the volcano in Iceland.

MonkeyFilter will kill us all! . Daisy_May! gets her revenge!! I'm tellin' ya Monkeys, the link has changed. Will you not listen! Oh, how, HOW did this happen?

U-2 Icon Bob Bogash has some great stories from his working life, like Kelly Johnson and the U-2 Dragon Lady and he's keeping himself busy in his retirement with The Hunt for a Boeing B-314 Flying Boat.

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything.

Meals on wheels Danish hotel offers food in exchange for pedal power

A vegetarian Komodo Dragon relative long known to native Filipino hunters but unknown to science has been discovered. The animal has never been identified by scientists before, though Filipino hunters have presumably been eating them for millennia. The animals were probably missed because they hide so well in the trees and were often confused with another non-vegetarian monitor lizard.

Man born without arms and legs writes an inspirational book. He can walk, swim, eat, and give speeches without limbs, and still has an amazing attitude.

Porn for the blind - a 13cm thick book of explicit softcore tactile nudes. (And I now know that Playboy has been (controversially) published in Braille off and on since 1970.)

Diminutive, but not Disappeared: Rare dwarf lemur rediscovered 100 years after last sighting.

Photo sharing! We haven't done anything like this in a long time. Post a photo you've taken that you think is really awesome for whatever reason. Technically awesome, an awesome subject (or an awesome photographer).

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